font alias css ?

You are looking for the font-family property. Documentation here:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/font/font-family.html

Basicly, you put the main font you want to use first, and then the alternatives in order of preference. E.G.

p
{
font-family: helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
}

Will show helvetica in browsers with access to that font, followed by verdana and arial in descending order, followed by the defined generic sans-serif font, whatever that happens to be, for all your <p></p> elements. The browser will read the list of fonts and apply the first one that is available.

http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

Well yes, I had something similar , but the text looks hard and crisp. I was looking for a way to add alias to it like you would in photoshop.

.casestudy_text {
	font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, Trebuchet MS;	
	font-size: 10px;	
	line-height: 1.20em;
	color: white;	
	letter-spacing: 1px;
}

Image Replacement. A popular one seems to be sifr.

http://www.shauninman.com/plete/2004/04/ifr-revisited-and-revised

If you are talking about anti-aliasing, Macs do this, and Windows XP will do it automatically if "clear type" is enabled. Unfortunately it comes disabled by default.

My windows 2000 home PC has a "smooth screen fonts" setting which appears to enable anti-aliasing, but that may be a function of the graphics card software or hardware. Earlier versions of Windows I don't know about.

Follow thepineapplehead's link

That link has to do with a flash replacement technque. I didn't see anything about text other than text inside flash.

It doesn't sound like there is away for css to do anti-aliasing.

There isn't. CSS doesn't do that, it lets you specify the font to use.

Just to clarify my previous post, there is nothing in CSS that specifies whether a font should have anti-aliasing applied. That's done (or not done) by the user agent (browser), or the O/S.

Cleartype isn't anti-aliasing - at least not anti-aliasing to the same standard achieved by OS/X or image manipulation software. Its aimed primarily at LCD displays where it gives big improvements - read more. If you are using IE there is also a ClearType Settings Tuner

One technique to improve the font look is to use a dark grey. That can soften the contrast at the edges of the font to make it look less blocky, although still nowhere near as smooth as text anti-aliased in image manipulation software or OS/X.

You may be right of course. I just sorta drew that conclusion from a note on page 83 of "Bulletproof Web Design" by Dan Cederholm although it doesn't actually say that outright.

Microsofts own blurb says its a new whizzbang thing that goes beyond traditional anti-aliasing and font smoothing. However, that sounds like marketting speak for different and not as good

In the end I believe the evidence of my own eyes - an anti-aliased gif of text always looks better than the same thing displayed by the browser, at least on my old CRT monitor. Maybe ClearType does look better than traditionally anti-aliased text on a flat panel.

I have a feeling in Vista, Microsoft will contrive some new marketing speak to explain how the font anti-aliasing it will have really is newer and goes beyond cruddy old ClearType.

Aliasing is the effect of jagged edges in smooth curves caused by displays using pixels.

Anything that "smooths" these effects is, by definition, "anti-aliasing".
This is normally done by filtering high-frequency components out of the digital signal. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing for further information.

(Earlier incorrect stuff about "dither" edited out to avoid too much public embarrasment)

Seemed like the right thing to do at the time. A url *is* code, isn't it?

In this forum, a fully qualified url, surrounded by a space on either end is clickable, eg., http://www.csscreator.com/ . Within the [code][/code] tags, it isn't. Optionally, you can use the [url=url]text[/url] tags like so:
[url=http://www.csscreator.com/]CSS Creator[/url], which will yield CSS Creator.

cheers,

gary

I love AA, it makes the chainlink fences in HL2 look purdy. AF is also great, I can knock it up to 16x without affecting the FPS.

With a 6600GT, I can get 0xaa. With my 6800gs, I've set it to 2x, could go higher. With a 7800gtx you could go max.

But back on topic CSS doesn't antialias fonts. Flash will, which is why I suggested the sifr days ago.

Didn't notice the little URL button and the tool-tip. I agree that's the right way to do it. Since I read left to right, apparantly my brain got to "Code" and stopped there.